"Weasleys!" "Children, Lucius. Imagine if something happened to us? Custody of Draco would automatically go to Andromeda and that Muggleborn husband of hers. Ed or Ted or something." The one where Arthur and Molly are killed before the war ends and after circling through many relatives, their kids end up with the one relative left before an orphanage, their aunt Narcissa.

She does not realise she is crying until Vernon presses an open bottle into her hand for Harry while he settles himself down on another chair with Dudley and the letter. "What are we going to do, Vernon?" "We're going to raise is a wizard is what, Pet. But first of all, I think we best get our hands on a second cot and get some of Dudleys' clothes back out of the loft. "

Three days pass as Harry lies beaten on his bedroom floor and no one comes. Harry realises he is the only person putting himself first and leaves number 4, fleeing to London where he finds new allies and begins to set up his own faction to take on the war and Voldemort. If that means going against Dumbledore with the help of his spy Parkinson and an insider at Gringotts so be it.

What if Molly had one last jab at Sirius before Harry said he wanted to fight? What if Sirius snapped back in a way that gave Harry a way into the conversation? What if Hermione followed? What if everything changed?

Harry Potter does not think the corpse of Severus Snape should be left to rot away. While others cry into shoulders after the final battle Harry needs to get away and fetching Snape's body is something to do. The trouble is, the body is still breathing and Harry has no idea what to do next.

Draco has to face facts. His wife is pregnant. His mother is pregnant. They are demanding muggle chocolate that is nations away and he needs to enlist his father. It is far too stressful! Meanwhile the ladies are at tea. Because really, women have been giving birth of millennia.

Sitting in the forest by the fire Ron brings up the subject of muggle children's stories once more which leads to a good intentioned if debated conversation over dinner.

After Susan is attacked by Crabbe and Goyle and saved by the trio she agrees to follow Hannah to the meeting she knows about.

"I guess I started my life as a muggle and then learned I was more and then I was made more again. I made my first true friend and it led me to war and sacrifice and kill or be killed. I have come to terms with the fact that my life goes the way it goes and I just need to react to it in the best way that I can." Hermione states flatly after a few moments of tense silence.

Bellatrix is chosen to give birth to her Lord's heir. It is lonely. It is wonderful. It is a new dawn.

After the second task Harry is walking towards the Slytherin Common Room alone when Seamus finds him in the entrance way and reminds him not all of the school hates him. Through blood hatred they form a bond to go forward.